Occupation: Author Birth: 1962
I'm hugely honored [with the Man Booker Prize]..
I just rode cross-country and the thing I noticed is just how afraid everyone is, and how nervous and scared and angry people are. From my point of v….
I'm not much of a self-promoter or anything. It's not something I feel comfortable doing. But sometimes I would get frustrated, I'd think, "You know,….
I'm not very pious about anything, fortunately, but I'm skewering myself first. I'm skewering things that I care about and things that are important ….
I read an interview with a Japanese freestyle jazz musician once, and he said something like, "Everything I'm going to tell you is not going to be tr….
There are certain things that happen in New York that just don't happen anywhere else..
I don't write to put it in a drawer, I hope that people see it..
The thing is that it's always a constant reminder of how violent this country has been, always has been, you know. I'm still frustrated with these co….
I co-taught a seminar called Small Group Processes with my professor. I learned so much from it, so much about myself, about groups, how this stuff w….
The other thing [my psychology professor] said to me was that I was always very mindful of the person who was away from the group, that I was always ….
If all the students who slept through lectures were laid end to end, they'd all be a lot more comfortable. If all the world's a stage, I want to oper….
It's just never the same. At least for me.It's probably because it's just who I am, I never know what that [truth] is. It's so momentary to go, "Oh, ….
I've written a little bit in Germany..
I don't try to be satirical. I just try to get what's in my head on the page. And that part is hard for me to do. It takes a long, long time to make ….
Like when you have the right title for something you're writing and you get lost - you can always go back to the title and go, "Yeah, that's what thi….
I'm very fortunate. I'm not much of a self-promoter or anything..
Contradictions make people feel off. They'll say, "Hey, you just said this and now this person is doing that, how is that possible?".
Don't write about trying to change the world, just write about a changed world or a world that's not changing. Let that do the work..
People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc..
All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient..
There are many similarities between Germans and blacks. The nouns themselves are loaded with so much historical baggage it's impossible for anyone to….